10+ hour, 3+ min ago   (1350+ words) Senator Mitch McConnell has yet to show his face in the halls of Congress, and the deadline for Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear to call a special election is fast approaching. Beshear has until this Monday, August 3, to call a special…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1386+ words) ABC accused the Federal Communications Commission Thursday of “attempted censorship” and a clear “retaliation” effort meant to send a message to every other media company in the country. “The Administration has openly and repeatedly called for the revocation of ABC’s…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1816+ words) The White House wasn’t ready for the revolt against acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s confirmation. President Donald Trump’s inner circle “seemed surprised” by the Republican pushback to Blanche’s nomination, MS NOW reported Thursday. The Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1752+ words) U.S. economic growth dropped to 1.5 percent in the second quarter, down from a 2.1 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday. Economists were expecting a gross domestic product growth…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1704+ words) Katie Miller, a former Trump administration staffer and wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller, has called for Anthony Fauci to be jailed, citing the recent release of his diary entries as proof that he is nothing but an attention-seeker....

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (183+ words) Donald Trump is suddenly bumping up against limits in many areas at once. Top aides just leaked to The Atlantic that he’s “frustrated” with his inability to force Iran’s hand with his increasingly deranged threats. In the case of Trump’s…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1960+ words) This is a lightly edited transcript of the June 28 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Perry Bacon: I’m Perry Bacon. I’m the host of…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (186+ words) On Fox News, Donald Trump threatened to bomb all of Iran’s bridges and all of its power plants. Making this worse, Trump declared that his threat could leave all of Iran’s 91 million people without power. That may be the first…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1186+ words) CBS’s 60 Minutes is getting another Trump-styled makeover. Conservative columnist Ross Douthat is leaving The New York Times to join the storied broadcast magazine in a new role, 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton announced Tuesday. Douthat has served as one of…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1505+ words) It appears that two outgoing Republican senators are prepared to tank the nomination of Todd Blanche for attorney general. Now, he’s demanding it in writing. Tillis, too, said he wants changes to the settlement agreement with the IRS, which created…...